A breakdown of what TikTok’s viral girl math means, and how people are justifying their purchases on concerts, vacations, and dresses with this logic.
I basically made money going to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.
This may be a girl’s girl summer, but buying tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, dressing up for Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour, and going to see the Barbie movie isn’t cheap. This is when every girl’s girl needs a bit of girl math. While scrolling through your FYP, you may have come across someone talking about this TikTok concept. Those who get it, get it, but those who don’t may be wondering what girl math means, and how you can use the logic yourself.
Girl math is essentially a way for people to justify making extravagant purchases. Instead of just looking at the price tag and your budget, you look at the whole picture of what could be and what has happened so far. You factor in all the different scenarios surrounding what you plan to purchase, like how many times will you use it? Is it on sale? How much was it originally? What form of payment are you going to use? How much will it cost later versus right now? After evaluating all the possibilities, you can determine, with girl math, whether you’ll actually make a profit off of this purchase in the end.
The term picked up on TikTok thanks to a radio show in New Zealand, ZM’s Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley, which discussed using girl math to explain why a caller, Andrea, would actually be making money by spending $400 on hair extensions for her wedding.
